Alien Mirage

This is a clean version of alien with the addition of a cold vanilla. It is pretty and feminine with that special alien twist. Simply put: smells like a daytime version of alien + cold vanilla. Beautiful!! Lasts long in my skin. The DNA is true to alien, which I love, so it still feels a little oomph when I wear it. Yes the notes are different, but somehow still smells like alien when I compare them when they begin to dry. Maybe the amber.. Not sure how that happens. I would say Mirage is more 'comforting' as a scent. Bright + airy, but warm at the same time. It has a underlying sweetness because of the vanilla, but not sickly sweet at all. I love this more as it begins to dry down and settle into my skin, and as it drys down it reveals more sweetness in contrast to the beginning which is a more alien with a mineral/solar twist. I mostly smell it when I sniff the bottle, kind of sun screen vibe, but this part doesn't really appear on my skin. I really appreciate it and the whole soft journey. I recommend this for spring/summer mostly but can be worn year round. I'd say it's definitely less 'weird' than when I think of mugler. It is more mainstream, easy to take in. Day/night all year round no fuss. I feel that I smell unique, but I'm not worried about offending anyone or coming on too heavy. It lasts around 7-8 hours on me which is long lasting enough for my preference. I've noticed it lasts wayy longer on my skin compared to my other flankers that are in the same vibe group Flora futura, fusion, extrodinare. Often I put mirage on before bed, and I still smell it in the morning. Any of the other flankers I mentioned are gone before morning when I have used it for bed. Beautiful bottle!! The picture does not do it justice. It's a purple to light blue ombre from the bottom to top. Gorgeous. If you like clean airy scents + vanilla, and the original alien is a bit too strong for your senses, this one is a beautiful option and easy blind buy. However, if you like very bold scents (aliens: oud, musc, etc), and you don't like anything that is softer or "mainstream" than the original alien, you will probably not like this. I brought 4 backup bottles. Yup. I'm obsessed.

Beggining is clean, as in good washing powder clean and mineral. Did you ever lick a salt lamp? Opening is an almost like salt lamp licking and putting your nose in a washing powder container. ALMOST is the key word here as both "feelings" are perfectly balanced and you cannot quite put a finger on what you actually smell. Luxurious clean smell don't get me wrong! But after a second there comes a beautiful lotos note. Just stunning, aquatic, wet. It transforms into something sweeter for a moment. Soapy, sweet and clean? You know the generic floral bath bombs from drugstores? Or a higher-end lotos hand soap? That's that exactly. A citrusy-ish freshness comes just after. Here I started recognizing the classic Alien DNA. I could swear I smell jasmine at this point - but there is no jasmine in the notes list :D Mirage starts giving hints like jasmine, orange blossom, some amber for sure and again a little bit of salt lamp or bath salts. It isn't the cloying and overly sweet white florals and amber combo that recent years releases tend to gravitate towards. This is pure class. After 10 minutes we are left with a performance of an "almost" things: almost salty, almost metallic, almost sweet, almost floral, almost fresh spicy, almost ambery/woody, almost plasticky even! Among whole Alien line this has to be the most alieny creature of all of them :) A hint from me: if you want a quicker graduation to an almost everything zone - spray it on the body if you want to stay in the divine mineral / Ganymede-ish zone of the top notes - spray it on your clothes. Haven't had a chance to be impressed by a sheer construction of perfume for a long time now... I normally wear fresh spicy or rose perfumes. I recommend trying Alien Mirage if you want to have fun for at least 3 hours and keep guessing what notes you smell at the moment. Alien Mirage to me is a mixture of: classic Alien (white florals + amber), Ganymede (mineral notes), CK Reveal (the saltiness & pepper) Definitely a beautiful unisex frag. Imo for a formal setting or desk/office job. Nonoffensive but detectable, clean but cozy, elegant but flirtatious and so so so unique!

I recently spotted a bottle of Mirage mistakenly placed next to its Goddess sisters under the glass counter at a Macy's. I asked to test it because I knew it for what it really was, and even the worker did not know what it was! Mirage has long been unavailable in stores. I was smitten from the first sniff and went home after, immediately looking to purchase a bottle of this discontinued beauty. The bottle I acquired was new in box and the liquid has turned a dark golden shade, just like my old Aliens. The lavender blue ombre of the glass is still visible and looks so much better than in pictures. Mugler smells like the Mugler of old! A unique but incredibly wearable melange of cold water and moist flowers. The original Alien EDP base is very prevalent, and it smell like the best of the CFG formulation, with a stronger sweeter jasmine and less of the golden ambery cashmere of the Thierry Mugler formulation. I think the early CFG formulation might actually be my favorite, though I still keep bottles of the original vintage too. Layered alongside are a cool, smooth lotus reminiscent of good-quality skin creams and juicy sweet syringa that reminds me of the fruity-green- white florals in Aura, another of CFG/Mugler's masterpieces. In a way, Mirage is the intersection of Alien EDP and Aura EDP because it delivers the best of both's signature florals. On top of this, though, I get a glacial, sharp mineral accord, along the lines of CK2. Definitely aquatic and mineralic but NOT like seawater a la Olympic Orchids Kingston Ferry or Nishane Boszporusz. More like sniffing river rocks that you just plucked out of the water. Compared to Alien EDP, Mirage is sweeter and fresher without being lighter, unlike prior summer flankers. Mirage is a little weird and I love it for that. However, Mirage is also very wearble. I think this is what makes it quintessentially Mugler.

This is so damn good! Mirage is an apt name for this flanker and the colour of the bottle is also very fitting as well. This beautiful blue gemstone holds a refreshing and unusual composition which, whilst it lends itself perfectly to warmer weather, is still fantastically wearable during the cooler months as well. As always with Mugler (well, pre L'Oreal..) this has an unusual note in it which is apparent all the way through the various stages of development on skin, the opening is bright and airy; mineral notes are instantly apparent and give off a "humid" vibe while pink pepper gives a sharp snap before I get a mix of lotus, syringa and this odd "custardy" floral note which then starts to smell a little bit like hot tarmac/petrol to me, I know that sounds repulsive but its oddly addictive and blends beautifully with the mineral notes, after a good 4 hours some hinoki and amber pad the base out, but the mineral petrol notes and humid feel are still very much present on my skin, there is something in this which does hint that it is indeed an Alien flanker, but I cant quite point out what it actually is, well, at least on my skin anyway. Longevity is EXCELLENT on my skin giving 8 hours of wear with a moderate silage, there is something very typical of Mugler about this and I LOVE it, its very clear that this was made prior to CFG selling Mugler to L'Oreal, whilst I do like Alien Goddess, I am so dissapointed that this wasn't made a permanent offering and that a limited edition Alien flanker wasn't released again this year, I'll treasure every drop of this wonderful creation! Also, any other fellow Zelda fans also think that the Alien bottles look like Rupees? will be totally honest and say that was the whole reason why I tried the OG Alien in the first place haha!

What a rare gem. Usually most lighter, summery Alien flankers are basically Alien lite + another fresh fruity or floral note. Which is not a bad thing, but a little predictable. Mirage is different. It has some of the Alien DNA, but less of it than other fragrances from this line. And it goes through different phases. In the opening it's most recognizable as one of Mugler's Aliens, but also very aquatic and mineralic. Lovely fresh lotus and other light florals lift the scent, while the mineral notes remind me of wet stones. The scent paints a serene, calming scene of a spring in the woods surrounded by flowers. But there is also the amber, or should I say vanilla? Because I honestly don't get much of a balsamic note here, just creamy, cool vanilla. Like ice cream. Hinoki woods play hide and seek, sometimes the scent turns quite green and woody, and then I don't that at all. At times Alien Mirage shows similarities with Mugler Aura, but less sweet and without the fruitiness. In other moments it's salty and creamy, reminiscent the drydowns of fragrances like Rabanne Olympéa and CK Reveal. It's a cooling scent with a warm background hum. Ideal for spring and summer, but it still smells nice now in fall and it seems like it lasts longer today than when I sampled it in the warmer months. This is so hard to find and rare in Germany, neither Douglas nor Galeria has it, only Müller. Is it like that in other countries too? If so, what a bad decision, this is the best lighter flanker of Alien I have smelled so far.

I've struggled to describe Mirage. It's just SO unique. But today during a walk while smelling my wrist obsessively (lol) it suddenly occurred to me! That unique part of the smell that's so hard to describe is something I've tasted (yes, TASTED) before... Then it came to me; Electrolyte drops you add in water! The way they taste like and even change the texture of the water, is exactly how the mineral note in Mirage smells like and even changes the 'texture' of the smell! It's a great perfume if you don't want to wear anything too feminine or masculine. It's not fresh in a sense like some "light and fresh" perfumes are, because the mineral note gives that special 'effect' to it. It's not like fresh air, it's more like humid seaside air on a cloudy day - just without the seagulls and the sea! But it's still a fragrance you can wear casually, anywhere and everywhere. Mirage was a blind-buy to me. I ordered Alien Fusion around the same time. I thought Fusion was the safer bet and Mirage a total gamble. But it turns out I actually prefer MIRAGE over Fusion! I can totally wear this. And I will add it to my "Easy to wear" category of perfumes, with Toy II and Light Blue. In a way Mirage should have been a scent of its own. So if you're an Alien fan looking for a good ALIEN flanker, then this might not be for you. I do detect Mugler DNA in this, but not so much Alien DNA. This is in a category of its own, and extremely unique.

First impressions review: This is officially my first Mugler, so I'm very excited about that! Honestly, I love this perfume. I sampled it a few times at Ulta, and ended up purchasing it. A lot of people are saying this smells nothing like the original Alien, however I recently tried the newest (l'oreal) version of Alien just to see if it was worth purchasing. Mirage actually smells similar to the current Alien formulation in my opinion. And while Alien only lasted for a couple hours tops on a test card, Mirage lasted up to a week, so there's that. I've never smelled the OG Alien, but I'm sure if that's what you're used to then Mirage probably smells quite different... But I digress. To me this is a very aquatic, beachy fragrance. Like being in Monterey on a hot summer day. The ocean air, mixed with cypress trees and blooming flowers. The opening is salty minerals, then you get the flowers and wood. In the dry down a creamy vanillac amber comes through to give a little warmth. I don't really know why so many people seem to dislike this so much. If you're a fan of beachy scents WITHOUT coconut or some other tropical fruit (like me) then you will probably like this. It is light, feminine, and beautiful. Also, this sort of reminds me of BBW Saltwater Breeze. Same sort of beachy vibe, although not as nice as Alien Mirage

After a bunch of outright fail or just meh blind buys, I'm so happy to have purchased this and to have renewed faith in perfume LOL. For reference, I'm a die hard fan of the old formulation of the OG Alien and had no problem choking myself out with it years ago lol. This scent does not directly remind me of the Alien DNA but more the vibe of Alien at first spray. It definitely has an aquatic lean but for someone who generally does not like wearing aquatics, this aspect is very wearable and turned down. Best description is that a few minutes in, Mirage is definitely a less sharp, warmer weather/lighter Alien and oh so lovely. I much prefer this to Alien Goddess Intense, which, while having a very distinct OG Alien current through it, has a watered down je ne sais quoi. Mirage, on the other hand, at least makes a statement (not for wallflowers). And isn't that what most diehard Alien fans want? EDIT: Moon nymph below me described this perfectly! A marriage proposal in the rain and a non typical aquatic. I may need to buy a back up bottle (only two sprays into my first bottle lol) before it totally disappears from circulation

Fluffy is the correct word to describe this feminine new scent by Mugler. It is all so refreshing with very pronounced Mineral notes and the added main floral Syringa note. The moderate Woody-Lemony Cypress note gives a nice Earthy vibe as well. I really love the Lotus in this. It is balancing and beautiful with its botanical, watery, floral essence. On my skin the Amber is quite noticeable on the dry down which is light and not at all heavy. The Pepper in this is also very light but it is detectable which to me is great for balancing this otherwise otherworldly composition. I at first ordered a sample from Mugler.com. I loved it so much I have ordered a full bottle because I know this will be reached for often in Summer. Especially for night time here in humid Florida. It sort of reminds of Guerlain's Aqua Allegoria Line but with better performance. The sillage is huge at first becoming more moderate on the dry down. The longevity is excellent considering it is an EDT. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting a refreshing, balancing yet alluring fragrance. A definite 10+.

Alien Mirage smells like a marriage proposal during summer rain. Your tears are mixing with raindrops as a wave of bliss takes over the pit of your stomach. Or like Darcy's heartfelt, rain-soaked confession in Pride and Prejudice. A "love at first sniff" fragrance. This is absolutely one of those just immediate "oh my god... YES" favourites. It is an absolute world apart from other aquatic floral scents. This is without a doubt, THE most elegant and genuinely feminine aquatic I've ever smelled. It's "blue" without being overly masculine, but "blue" in a dreamy, romantic way. That said, a man in this could absolutely ruin my life, lol. Watery and more delicately refined than oceanic. More reminiscent of a lotus flower floating on a natural body of still water, or midsummer rainwater falling quietly on an English garden, than the more chaotic bluntness of seaweedy, algae, in-your-face *ocean*. The only bad thing about this fragrance is that it is discontinued. My heart is broken.

Alien Mirage: a fragile, standoffish beauty that was Clarins' good-bye kiss to Mugler. The zing of pink pepper at the start, floral facets in the middle (chiefly of lilacs, watery-reminiscent of En Passant), and the transparent yet billowy musk of the base in this remind me of my beloved "Love, Chloe". Not many people talk about the use of musk in Alien since it's to be believed that "white amber" (aka the wonderful molecule of cashmeran) is all there is in the base notes, but I notice there is always a tiny bit of musks running through Alien as an invisible scaffolding, more obvious in those summer flankers like Sunessence, which always morphs into a ghost of Narciso Rodríguez's For Her on my skin. Alien Mirage is markedly less powdery and appears brighter than "Love, Chloe" but still contemplative in style; offering an arresting charm in its minerality. It stands out in the Alien lineup as an odd one out, aquatic and summer-friendly but is neither citrusy nor melon-y.

Let's be real: if you spray this and immediately whine about "pickle juice," pack up your basic travel sprays and go back to the mass-market sugar bombs. Your nose is untrained, and you are cluttering the comment section. Alien Mirage is how you actually do a flanker. It doesn't lazy-copy the original's massive, syrupy grape-jasmine. Instead, it translates that exact same eerie, otherworldly feeling into a cold, wet storm. The opening is a metallic, mineral slap. It smells like a heavy desert rain hitting hot concrete. The floral note here isn't soft, sweet, or pretty—it's a clean, watery lotus flower that feels totally weightless. The dry down of Hinoki wood and salt wraps you in a comforting, mineral skin scent that makes you want to keep sniffing your arm. It is light, but it is not a boring "freshie." It is a clean, quiet oasis. Buy your backups before they are gone forever. If you are in the "pickle" crowd, keep moving. This was never made for you anyway.

Oh this is a LOVE for me ! at first we have that sea breeze rain mist, but right underneath we get the Alien signature amber, minus the jasmine...I do not find it peperry at all..for me this is a version that stands out, a mix of warm and fresh, and not like fruity fresh, more like a warm breeze by a tropical garden..,it has a touch of a unisex moment, it is short lived...this has a bit of Aura also, and reminds me of Extase Nina Rocci in the marine vibe, this is different, interesting, my husband thought it smelled very nice...although it doesn’t project with strength, it lingers good, with a smooth salty amber..the lotus flower stands out , and mixed in with the amber, it is a delightful mix..I can’t believe some find it generic...no, it isn’t..all the flankers so far have been interesting, and this is actually a great smelling perfume. UP DATE: it developed a unisex marine undertone on me, so I gave it to a friend..

This should have gotten so much more attention, and been marketed much better. It's honestly a gem in the Mugler range and their most unique Alien yet. When I wear this I cannot help but sniff myself..I must look ridiculous xD It oscillates between coldness and warmth..Upon first sniff you get an impression of sea air, and with the dry down you get a soft, almost fluffy vibe that I have heard discribed. With all the attention that fragrance in general has gotten, in part due to quarantine and lockdown making a lot of us stir crazy and more apt to blindbuy, this really could have been a smash...Eau Croisiere as well...shame. For a general summary, this is a must-sniff. You will smell feminine, but an interesting and layered feminine. Marketed for summer, but the amber and wood base notes could carry this throughout the year. Backup worthy, I must say.

I blind bought this for the stunning bottle! I tried to talk myself out of it, but I went with the urge. I also got it for an amazing price I like the OG, yet a little too strong for me, so thought this may be a good compromise. I was absolutely correct! I got the fresh laundry vibe upon initial spray (which is what I get with the OG Alien), and I can definitely tell the Alien DNA is there (although only ONE note, Amber, links the two). There are glimpses of warmth with the pink pepper on top, otherwise this perfume is cold as ice. It’s sophisticated and snobby, yet oddly enough, I catch the egg scent people keep mentioning. It’s not off putting; if you know to look for it, you’ll find it. If you want an easy, everyday wear and like the original - ignore the shade and pick this up.

There's a reason @SailorV has a big fat bouquet of balloons. I agree with everything she said except the last paragraph, because here in the good ole US of A, I bought 2 bottles, 5 days apart directly from Mugler USA at 40% off with a little too much ease. I bought it, loved it, and decided I needed a back up ASAP because the words "Last Chance Sale" alarm me into thinking they're going to do something dumb like discontinue this masterpiece. I love me some acquatic scents, and this doesn't disappoint. The vanilla + sea salt combo reminds me of Olympea, but much more well executed and balanced (sorry not sorry Mr. Rabanne). For an EDT, the longevity is impressive, around 5-6 hours. Blind buy and back-up bottle worthy.

Imagine a secluded beach, somewhere with no name. Tall cliff behind, tall evergreen trees on top, overlooking the vastity of the ocean. You are sunbathing, inhaling the iodine particles lifted in the air by the never ending motion of waves gently lapping at the shore. Somewhere, for sure, white flowers must have bloomed because you definitely can pick up their scent. It lingers around light but detectable, as a kite riding the breeze. It's a beautiful day, and you care not for the clamour of the world. You feel ethereal as the breeze, untouchable and free. Anyone looking at you right now would think in fact that you are a mirage. Spellbounding suave.

I got this in the early spring and I did not like it, the mineral notes, lotus and something else was off putting. I don’t know if it’s because it’s been a few months or the weather is suitably hot for it now that it’s July but I did a tester spray on one wrist and 5 min later went back to spray the rest on me. The previous reviewer mentioned cucumber lotion and I think I know what she means! It is cucumber-esque but much nicer and more (aquatic) floral. I don’t notice the mineral notes very much in the heat. Longevity seems average and projection is maybe an arms length. Not bad for an EDT. I’m surprised how much more I like this since the spring!

A mysterious mineral and lotus gemstone, filled within its blue glass with a crisp rust-colored liquid. Immediately, the mineral notes tingle your nose upon application and the lotus glows bright, continuing to do so even the next day. the sillage and potency of this scent really pleased me. Really overjoyed with this perfume. Gives me the impression of a vampire that lives in a desert... Hot, dry, cold, mineral, inorganic. It would absolutely be Diane Lefanu's signature scent. absolutely wonderful ! Immediately has become one of my favourite perfumes. i have to restock on more, it's so sad that it has been released only as a limited run:(

To me this is not really an Alien, there's no jasmine, yet it has something that does make me think of the reformulated Alien. It's a bit synthetic purple flower, verging on a pollen like feeling with something almost smelling like bath salts with dry woods. This has a heavy dense musk too which gives it a lot of texture and a dry but slightly creamy feel. I like this one, it's very different, not an Alien but fine, an interesting flanker. To me this doesn't smell at all natural, maybe that's why it's an Alien? I wear it in the summer mainly. It can be a little cloying at times because of the heavy feel of it but longevity is great.